1918.] C. Paiva : Rhynchota of the Inle Lake. 29 



Plea quinquenotata, sp. nov.^ 



(Plate VIII, figs. 7, la.) 



One specimen from the edge of the Inle Lake at Fort Stedman, 

 Yawnghwe State, 28-ii-1917. 



Dull greyish-white ; head with a central, longitudinal, yellowish 

 fascia extending from base to about the middle of the facial region, 

 wider posteriorly than anteriorly ; eyes purplish-red ; head densely 

 punctured. 



Pronotum greyish-white, densely jjunctured ; posterior lateral area 

 shghtly fuscous ; five small black spots above, situated two a httle 

 behind anterior margin on disk, one near each lateral angle and one at 

 the middle of the basal margin. 



Scutellum yellowish, sparingly punctured. Elytra densely punc- 

 tured with brown ; clavus with the punctures darker near the base and 

 apex ; corium greyish- white with a transverse fuscous band near middle 

 and a large fuscous patch on its posterior third. 



Legs pale ochraceous, extreme apices of femora and tibiae anuulated 

 with black. 



Underside dark brown or black. 



Length 1-5 millim. 



Type No. 7145/H. I. in the collection of the Zoological Survey of 

 India. 



Plea areolata, sp. nov. 



(Plate VIII, figs. 8, 8f/.) 



One specimen from the top of the gorge of the He-Ho River, ca. 

 3,500 ft., 7-iii-1917, and two from the marginal zone of the Inle Lake, 

 Yawnghwe State, 2 — 3-iii-1917. 



Head pale ochraceous with three dark brown spots, one central, 

 longitudinal, rectangular, the others rounded and placed obliquely, one 

 on each side and above the central spot ; vertex sparingly punctured, 

 disk impunctate ; eyes black. 



Pronotum fuscous, with the anterior margin brown and the anterior 

 area and three lines (one broad, central, longitudinal, not reaching 

 posterior m.argin and two indistinct lateral, obhque), pale ochraceous ; 

 the central Hne is laevigate ; anterior area of pronotum almost im- 

 punctate, with a single line of punctures on anterior margin, the greater 

 part of the posterior area with very deep black punctures which under a 

 high power of the microscope appear hke areola or deep pits, each pit 

 with a short stiff hair. Scutellum yellowish-grey, dark along the basal 

 margin, sparingly punctured. 



Clavus and corium greyish-white with numerous deep black punc- 

 tures, apex of clavus shghtly fuscous. 



Underside black or fuscous ; the legs ochraceous, posterior tibiae 

 with a series of fairly long spines beneath, and with a long stiff hair 



^ In the figure of this species the artist has raised each part of the insect in profile 

 in ordfr to show tho inariines tnoi-c distinctly. Figure la gives a side \iew of tlic insect. 



